Composite Repair Theory and Design

Bonded composite repairs are efficient and cost effective means of repairing cracks and corrosion grind-out cavity in metallic structures, and composite structures sustained impact and ballistic damages, especially in aircraft structures. This book grew out of the recent research conducted at the Boeing Company and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO, Australia) over the past ten years. Consequently this book is predominately a compilation of the work by the authors and their colleague at these two organizations on the design and analysis of composite repairs. Even though currently there are two edited books available on this particular topic, (Bonded Repair of Aircraft Structures, editors Baker and Jones, 1988, Martinus Nijhoff Publisher; Advances in Bonded Composite Repair of Metallic Structure, Baker et al, 2002, Elsevier), none have provided sufficient treatment of the design and analysis of bonded composite repairs. This book is therefore developed to fill in that gap by devoting its content entirely to the design and analysis of bonded repairs, focusing on the mathematical techniques and analysis approaches that are critical to the successful implementation of bonded repairs. The topics addressed in this book are developed to the extent that the presentation is sufficiently self-explanatory, and hence could serve as a state-of-the-art reference guide to engineers, scientists, researchers and practitioners interested in the underpinning design methodology and the modelling of composite repairs. Furthermore, this book can be used as a companion reference book to the United States Air Force (USAF) bonded repair guidelines (Guidelines for Composite Repair of Metallic Structure-CRMS, AFRL-WP-TR-1998-4113) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Design Standard DEF(AUST)9005 that are currently used by most practitioners and field repair engineers through out the world, as well as for the new software called CRAS (Composite Repair of Aircraft Structures) developed by the Boeing Company and funded by the USAF.Duong, Cong N. is the author of 'Composite Repair Theory and Design', published 2007 under ISBN 9780080451466 and ISBN 0080451462.